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MANUFACTURE OF STARGHr No. 329,229. i Patented 0013.27, 1885.

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MANUFACTURE OF. STARCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,229, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed July 25, 1885. Serial No. 172,642. (No specimens.)

To all whom it" may concern.-

Be it known that I, SIGMUND SPITZER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, residing at Vienna, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manufacture of Starch, 850.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the manufacture of starch, and at the same time for gaining the pasty substances produced during its manufacture for the purpose of making glue, &c.; and the object is to purify the starch and make it much whiter than has been the case heretofore; also, to remove the gummy 0r pasty substances, which are now left in the bran, refuse, 850., to produce glue, and also to use the refuse now fed to cattle and at present causing disease among them.

The invention consists in certain apparatus and details of construction, as will be more fully described hereinafter, and more specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters indicate similar parts in the different figures of the drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a-pair of rollers for crushing the grain from which the starch is produced. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the apparatus in which the deleterious mattersuch as bran, hulls, smut, 8tc.is removed or washed out. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 2. Figs. 4. and 5 are cross and longitudinal sections of the apparatus in which the gummy substances are separated from the purified starch to produce glue or paste.

In the drawings, A and B represent a pair of rollers for crushing the grain automatically fed to them, supported in a suitable framework, and operated by gearing or pulleys, and having the usual hopper and delivery-spout.- By these the grain is crushed and the material producing the starch, &c., is produced. It is then introduced into the machine shown in Figs. 2 and 3 in its impure state. This consists of a semicircular casing 0r shell,G, in which a lining, D, provided with numerous fine perforations, is arranged, and a space, a,

left between the lining and said casing. In

the lining is placed a shaft, d, in proper journals, and operated by suitable belt and pulleys or gearing. This shaft is provided with numerous beaters or mixers, e, and the material,with a proper quantity of water supplied in sufficient quantity to form a paste. is introduced into said lining, and the purified mate rial is forced through the perforations into the space a, from which it is removed in any suitable manner, and the purified starch is conveyed to proper receptacles. The gummy substances, as well as all refuse, are then conveyed to the machine shown in Figs. 4 and 5. This machime consists of a cylindrical vessel or drum, E, of metal, and arranged in a suitable casing or receptacle, F, containing wa ter. The vessel is journaled in proper journals, and is provided with numerous perforations, through which the fine bran, smut, or deleterious matters are passed or forced, while the gummy substances are retained in the vessel E, and formed into balls or lumps by the rotation of the vessel, and from said balls or lumps all bran, &c., is thoroughly extracted, and out of them the glue is produced.

The vessel E may have wooden heads f, if

- desired, and may, if made very long, be provided with intermediate spiders or braces.

It will be readily seen that by these means a far superior starch is produced than in any other manner heretofore used, having a very white and much finer appearance. It is of a much better'and finer quality. It will leave or form n0 streaks as ordinary starch. All matter now produced in the manufacture of starch and often fed to cattle and causing sickness and diseases to them is entirely removed and purified from the deleterious gummy or pasty substances which form a coating in said cattle s stomachs. These substances are by my apparatus formed into a glue or paste of very suarating the gummy substances from the refuse, I In testimony whereof I affix my signature in u in the manner herein shown and set forth presence of two witnesses.

2. The combination of the crushing-rollers A and B, the machine consisting of the vessel SIGMUN D SPITZER. O, perforated lining D, having shaft d, provided withbeaters e, and the apparatus here- Witnesses:

in shown, consisting of the perforated drum I T. O. BREOHT,

E, arranged in the receptacle F, all arranged LOUIS BEYER. substantially as and for the purpose specified. I 

